I am getting Homebrew error while setting up environment for macOS. The environment setup worked just few days ago. Currently I am getting syntax error as below. /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/brew.rb:23:in require_relative': /usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Homebrew/global.rb:110: syntax error, u…

This is a bug in Homebrew that was fixed in https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/commit/00dbb221b7c125073957ca51d2341adc11f6aafc (1.9.0). It happens on Homebrew autoupdate: the post-update invocation still uses the old environment ( in this particular situation, the old Ruby version ). It surfaced since h…

"syntax error, unexpected keyword_rescue, expecting keyword_end" in Homebrew

Environments macOS

rkollataj October 23, 2019, 7:25am 2

The problem was caused by homebrew auto update. Disabling auto update solves the problem:

e.g.

HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1 brew install qt5 ninja

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"syntax error, unexpected keyword_rescue, expecting keyword_end" in Homebrew

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